Era Nine: Postwar United States (1945 - 1970)

President Truman and the Bomb, 1945

Truman Doctrine, 1947

Marshall Plan, 1948

NSC - 68, 1950

Brown vs. Board of Education, 1954

Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-56

The Clinton 12, 1956

Integration of Little Rock, Arkansas, 1957

Nashville Student Sit-ins, 1960

President Eisenhower's Farewell Address, 1961

President Kennedy's Inaugural Address, 1961

The Bay of Pigs, 1961

The Freedom Rides, 1961

The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

Martin Luther King, "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," 1963

The March on Washington, 1963

Birmingham Bombing, 1963

Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique, 1963

Civil Rights Act, 1964

Barry Goldwater's Speech Accepting the Republican Nomination for President, 1964

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, 1964

Voting Rights Act, 1965